The Wife of the First Consul
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. vi, 357 pages : portrait. translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. From the Famous women of the French court series. More
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. vi, 357 pages : portrait. translated by Thomas Sergeant Perry. From the Famous women of the French court series. More
Columbia, S.C. I.C. Morgan's Letter Press Print, 1846. Hardcover. Original dark brown embossed publisher's cloth with black spine, with mounted title card; 258 pp.; frontispiece. This book is bound in original embossed publisher's cloth, with the spine and hinges previously reinfoced by older cloth booktape. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: John Wilson and Son, 1869. Hardcover. Reddish-brown paper over boards; Black cloth at spine; 60 pp.; No illustrations. Livermore held the best collection of early Bibles in America and was presented with the pen Abraham Lincoln used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation; Bookplate of C.C. Livermore, George's son..... More
Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 2015. Softcover. White & BW illus. stapled wraps, back flap, 24 pp., 15 color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition of depictions (paintings, sculpture, ephemera, etc.) of French military officer and American Revolutionary man Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). Consists of an illustrated narrative..... More
New York: F.H. Hitchcock, 1927. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xi, 517 pp; bw portrait frontispiece; bw plates, portraits, facsimiles, coat of arms. Bookplate of previous owner, "Joseph Carmine Zavatt (September 19, 1900 – August 31, 1985) was a United States District Judge of the United States..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. Hardcover. Blue cloth, library binding, 547 pp., 50 BW illus., many pull-out maps. A biography of John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), which the author claims to be the first one to offer a "consecutive and complete account of the entire..... More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Blue cloth/boards with gold lettering. teal/tan dj with illustration. 270 pp. with bw frontis. "This book's strong and original starting point is to study Samuel Johnson through his activity as a reader, not as a writer. By looking at Johnson as a...... More
Tokyo: Yarakusha, 1906. Hardbound. Stiff boards, paper spine. viii, 417 pp. +6 pp. ads at rear. Scarce title, and an affordable copy. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, original name Hiyoshimaru (born 1536/37, Nakamura, Owari province [now in Aichi prefecture], Japan—died Sept. 18, 1598, Fushimi), feudal lord and chief Imperial minister (1585–98), who completed..... More
London: W. Mears, 1721. Leather bound. Leather with marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Title-page states two volumes, actually one volume paginated continuously. Title-page, blank verso, (7 pp. preface, blank verson, 4 pp. TABLE) pp. 1-486. Paged continuously./ "A miscellany of biography, politics, literary reminiscences, and criticism ... some of the..... More
Perugia: Francesco Tozzuolo, 2017. Paperback. Italian language text, illustrated wraps. 223 pages : illustrations. Originally published: Montepulciano : Editori del grifo, 1990./ Collection of writings about the author's journey in New York from 1928 until 1930. More
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1955. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; xiv, 942 pp; bw illustrated frontispiece; bw illustrations. Includes 31 plates and 10 line drawings. More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. Second Impression. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards with black spine lettering. Bw photographic dj with orange/white spine lettering. 173 pp. with 5 bw glossy photos. Written by the former Chief of the British Mission to the Soviet Forces in Eastern Germany, stationed in Potsdam. Dewhurst writes..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Original/First. Hardcover. Tan cloth/boards with baseball illus. on front cover. Brown lettering on spine. 209 pp. with 4 full-page bw frontis photos and several bw line drawings within text. No dj, as issued. A volume from The Big League Baseball Library. With line illustrations..... More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1965-1974. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in red cloth, gray title block on spine with gilt lettering. Each volume has a bw illustrated frontispiece. Volume one is xlvi, 744 pp. Volume two is xix, 547 pp. Volume three is xxv, 692 pp. Each has several bw facsimiles..... More
Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., Ltd., 1905 (?). Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt titling to front cover; Green tape at spine; 243 pp.; 8 bw plates. This is not a reprint or print-on-demand copy. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2017. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black dust jacket with peach and red lettering, BW illustration. 432 pp. At least 176 illustrations in BW and color. A Sunday Times / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year. As a poet, visual artist and essayist..... More
Lanham, Maryland: Madison Books, 1997. Hardcover. Black leatherette over boards; Light green pictorial dj.; 411 pp.; Numerous bw photos. The memoirs of Eleanor Davies Tydings Ditzen, daughter of an ambassador, wife and mother to senators, and a mainstay in Washington political and social circles for over seventy years. More
London: Profile Books Ltd., 2009. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; 432 pp.; 9 color, 14 bw plates; 6 bw maps. Biography of Catherine the Great; From the jacket: "Formidably (and self-) educated, she was extremely hard-working, with a commitment to ideas and a charismatic personality. She also..... More
Paris: Chez Germain Mathiot, libraire, quai des Augustins, no. 25, 1815. Tome Second. Hardcover. Half-bound black leather boards with five raised bands, marbled covers and gilt lettering and illustration; text block top is gilted; signature of Germain Mathiot on page which is opposite page 1; ribbon bookmark; marbled endpapers; 224..... More
London, England: Duckworth, 1994. Hardcover. black cloth boards w/ gilt printing. 272 pgs w/ bw illustrations. glossy white & yellow tinted illustrated dustjacket. A nice, bright and sharp copy. Remains tightly bound; appears unread. More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and design; xix, 492 pp.; frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles. More
Paris: Typographie Plon-Nourrit et Cie, 1906. Softcover. Printed publishers glued wraps. [2], VIII, [4], 294, [2] pages. Preface signed: H.-A. du Pont de Nemours and dated 1904. Text is in French. Memoirs dated September, 1792. Worldcat locates 3 copies, quite scarce. No finer copy to be found. More
New York: National Americana Society, 1926. Hardcover. Bright blue embossed cloth with tattered dustjacket that mimics cloth design. Contents: Birth, Parentage, Youth and marriage, Service in the Navy until 1838 -- Cruise of the Ohio, 1838-1841: Service afloat up to the time of the Mexican War -- The Mexican War..... More
Paris: Editions de L'Herne, 2015. Softcover. White card wraps with bw portrait and orange/turquoise lettering. Orange paper band with white lettering. 323 pp. with occasional bw images. Text in French. Summary: Henri Pierre Roché is often it is associated with the name of another: Albert Roussel (Chinese Poetry), Francois Truffaut..... More